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for Cilix, wrongly designated a brother of Cadmus. The Cadmus 

 "who sowed the dragon's teeth, however, is Etam, the father of 

 Jezreel, or the sown of God ; and Echion, one of the Spartoi, is his 

 son-in-law Achuzam, whose name also survived in Echidna, Aegida, 

 Sphinx, and similar Ophite names. Cadmus and Cadmillus have 

 been frequently compared and identified. The same confusion as we 

 find in the traditions of the Greek Cadmiis are manifest in those of 

 the Indian Gautama, who also, at times, represents Etam, and at 

 others Achuzam. Thasus, called a companion of Cadmus, is Thoth 

 or Achuzam. Hyes, a name of Bacchus or Boeotus, the Bochus or 

 Boethos of Manetho's second dynasty, at once recalls the Babylonian 

 Hea, whom we have identified with Ashchur's first-born. Glaucus 

 with his train of Cetea or Hittites, a son of Poseidon, is Jehaleleel. 

 He is improperly called son of Copeus, who is really his own son 

 Ziph. The Aeolian line exhibits manifest Ashchvirite relationships. 

 Aeolus himself, with Ele^is and Perieres, denote Jehaleleel ; Cretheus 

 is Zereth ; Macednus, Achuzam ; Ormenus, Harum ; Piei'us, Beor ; 

 Phocus, Coz ; and Epeus, Jabez. The union of Pegasus and Helicon 

 simply arises from the fact that the latter denotes the son of the 

 Ashchurite designated by the former name. Hyperenor, the brother 

 or companion of Echion, is Hepher or Hyperion. Coiythus, called 

 the father of Harmonia, is Zereth. Zereth, who is the Phcenician 

 Melcartus, is also the sea-deity Melicerta, his mother Ino Leucothce, 

 who is the same as Halia, sister of the Telchins and lover of Poseidon, 

 being Helah the wife of Ashchur, and, as I have already hinted, a 

 daughter of . Salma, the father of Bethlehem, the 'Bethlehemites 

 being the Ptelchins. The Itonian Minerva may be a memorial of 

 Ethnan, his younger brother. Nysa, so famous in early Grecian 

 history in connection with the story of Bacchus and Ceres, has been 

 referred to Palestine by many writers. Thus Diodorus places it in 

 Arabia, between the Nile and Phoenicia (Jenysus), and Pliny in 

 Palestine, on the frontiers of Arabia; Stephanus of Byzantium 

 identifies it with Scythopolis, which Josephus makes the same as 

 Beth-Shan ; and Philonides, in Athenaeus, brings Bacchus and the 

 vine from the Red Sea. The Bacchus of the mysteries, or Jacchus, is 

 Achuzam ; but the Bacchus of the vine is Coz, the father of Anub, or 

 CEnopion. As such he is properly the son of Amnion. He connects 

 with the line of Achuzam by marriage with Ziphah, the daughter of 

 Jehaleleel. Transfer the Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries to the 



